Post-Quantum Cryptographic Protocols with Advanced Functionalities
5/15/26-4/30/29
Award Recipient: Edoardo Persichetti, Veronika Kuchta
Funding Agency:  National Science Foundation
Awarded: $399,964

CyberCorps Scholarship for Service  
3/1/24-2/28/29
Award Recipient: Francesco Sica
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Awarded: $2,872,208

Past Grants and Projects

CAREER: Concrete Hardness in Lattice-based Cryptography
5/15/21-4/30/26
Award Recipient: Shi Bai
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Awarded: $500,675

AMS Young Scholars Program Award 2025 (CryptoTeens in South Florida)
3/27/25-10/15/25
Award Recipient: Veronika Kuchta
Funding Agency: American Mathematical Society
Awarded: $5,000

CISE-ANR: CNS Core: Small: Crytographic Hardness of Module Lattices
10/1/21-9/30/25
Award Recipient:  Shi Bai
Funding Agency:  National Science Foundation
Awarded:  $246,337

Young CryptograpHers Summer Camp
5/3/24-5/31/25
Award Recipient: Veronika Kuchta
Funding Agency: Mathematical Association of America
Awarded: $6,000

Young Scholars Program Award 2024 (Young CryptograpHers Summer Camp), 3/21/24-3/31/25
Award Recipient: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: American Mathematical Society
                                    Awarded: $10,000

Exploring Innovative Approaches for Post-Quantum Authentication
Award Recipient: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: National Security Agency
Dates: 9/16/22 – 9/16/24
Total: $298,989

Determining Cryptographic Security Margins in the Presence of Quantum Computing
9/1/20 - 8/31/22
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt, Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: National Security Agency 
(NCAE-C)
Awarded: $161,091

Toward a Quantum-Safe Communication Infrastructure
5/21/20-11/30/21
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Awarded: $50,526

Secure and Efficient Solutions for Post-Quantum Cryptography for Codes with Compact Representations
7/1/19-6/30/22
Award Recipient: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Awarded: $499,946

Online Modules for Emerging Topics in Cryptography
7/1/19-6/30/21
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Fundy Agency: Cyber Florida/Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FCC)
Awarded: $34,442

Young CryptograpHERs: a Cyber-security Summer Camp for K-12 Girls
7/1/19-12/31/20
Award Recipient: Edoardo Persichetti
Funding Agency: Cyber Florida/Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FCC)
Awarded: $73,930

A Platform for the Evaluation of Post-Quantum Primitives
12/15/18-12/14/21
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt,Edoardo Persichetti, Shi Bai, Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: National Institute for Standards and Technology
Awarded: $194,980

Development of a Blockchain Oriented Security Class
7/01/2018 - 12/31/2019
Award Recipient: Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: Cyber Florida/Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FCC)

Lattice Algorithms for Post-Quantum Cryptography
12/15/2018 - 12/14/2021
Award Recipient: Shi Bai, Rainer Steinwandt 
Funding Agency: National Institute for Standards and Technology
Awarded: $368,013

Quantum-safe Authenticated Group Key Establishment
10/1/18-10/30/21
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: Slovak University of Technology / NATO Project
Awarded: $85,443

Secure Communication in the Quantum Era
Approved: Mar 2018
Co-Director US: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: NATO SPS

Emerging Side-Channel Resistant and Resource-Friendly Elliptic Curve Algorithms and Architectures 
5/1/17 - 4/30/20
Award Recipient: Reza Azarderakhsh, Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: US Army

Studie Entwicklungsstand Quantencomputer/ Study Development of Quantum Computer
1/10/17 - 1/9/20
Award Recipient: Rainer Steinwandt
Funding Agency: Saarland University (GER)/ German Federal Office for Information Security

Privacy-Aware Wearable-Assisted Continuous Authentication Framework 
8/15/17 - 7/31/19
Award Recipient: Koray Karabina
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

M. Baldi, E. Persichetti, and P. Santini (eds.): 
8th International Workshop, CBCrypto 2020, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12087, 2020.

M. Baldi, E. Persichetti, and P. Santini (eds.): 
7th International Workshop on Code-Based Cryptography, CBC 2019, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11666, 2019.

J. Ding and R. Steinwandt (eds.): Post-Quantum Cryptography, 10th International Conference, PQCrypto, 2019; Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol, 11505, 2019.  

T. Lange and R. Steinwandt (eds.): 
Post-Quantum Cryptography, 9th International Conference, PQCrypto 2018, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10786, 2018.

M. I. González Vasco and R. Steinwandt: 
Group Theoretic Cryptography, Chapman and Hall/CRC Cryptography, and Network Security Series, 2015

M. Burmester, G. Tsudik, S.S. Magliveras, and I. Ilic (eds.): Information Security,13th International Conference, ISC 2010, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6531, 2011.

X Zou, B. Ramamurty, and S.S. Magliveras: 
Secure Group Communications over Data Networks, Springer, 2005.

 Mathematical Cryptology